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I would put it differently (you won't be surprised to hear). Maybe, at least on economic matters, I'm a puritan.

Thus, the trials did not result from Puritan religion; they proceeded for a while despite protests from leading pastors.

her mother, with delicate scissors, would snip out the genitals from tapestries destined for the puritan American market.

Puritan Sabbath observance began at sundown and no work of any kind, even household chores, was allowed for the next 24-hours.

The Illustrated London News presented him replete with a tall, round Puritan hat, his flamboyance signalled by an ostrich feather.

But the Puritan fathers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony did not countenance tolerance of opposing religious views.

At first glance, this doesn't seem to make sense, especially to a Western mindset, steeped as it is in the puritan work ethic.

As a stout Puritan, he had made a conscientious study of the Bible and firmly believed in salvation through spiritual struggle.

This thesis, with reference to Reformation and British Puritan revolution, expounds the change of concept of usury in early modern England.

Of course, being a Puritan minister as well as a poet, Danforth never ventured far from a spiritual message.

Others have cared most about teaching their religious beliefs to the next generation, as the Puritan schools taught the Bible.

They followed new England Puritan precedents in this regard, still speaking of themselves as a New Israel and a covenanted people.

I write distractedly, but this girl-this Jeanie Deans, is a peevish puritan, superstitious and scrupulous after the manner of her sect.

The Puritan doctrine of the Sabbath includes a strong emphasis on literal resting from labor, recreation, and other cultural activity.

The Puritan villagers believed all the quarreling was the work of the Devil.

The literary giant of the century, John Milton (1608--1674), was much bound up in Puritan Revolution.

Earlier this year, a newspaper editor made the mistake of printing a blunt critique of puritan religious beliefs, and was summarily fired.

But, in that early severity of the Puritan character, an inference of this kind could not so indubitably be drawn.

One wonders what Dane thought of the careful sermons explaining the Bible that he heard in puritan churched.

Oliver Cromwell's Puritan government banned Christmas by an act of parliament in 1647.

When Oliver Cromwell took over England in 1645, Christmas was cancelled as part of a Puritan effort to rid the country of decadence.

Capitalism, as Max Weber said, depends on the Puritan virtues of hard work, thrift and deferred gratification.

After the incident, she was sentenced to chest Puritan A word to wear red (which means adultery) be publicly humiliated.

Hester caught hold of Pearl, and drew her forcibly into her arms, confronting the old Puritan magistrate with almost a fierce expression.

And his opposition to inequality stems from Puritan preachers and the social gospel rather than socialism.

(The Puritan Gift: Reclaiming the American Dream Amidst Global Financial Chaos).

She came from a very serious, Puritan family. Lots of church-going, and no singing or dancing.

Stowe herself was a perfect representative of old New England Puritan stock.

The puritan colonists saw school as a source of spiritual advancement, important to the preservation of religious freedom.

Established by Lloyd-Jones and Iain Murray for the preservation of reformed, Puritan writings.

If one wishes to be a prig or a Puritan, one can flaunt one's moral views about them.

The gold rush created an alternative to the Puritan notion of hard work and saving that had characterised the nation's early days.

I don't buy the view that Hogarth is sneering at lovers here or expressing Puritan fear of the flesh.

What makes the second premise problematic is the use of the Puritan colonies as a basis for comparison.

In the Puritan view of the Sabbath there is nothing "new" about the new covenant day of rest.

Also fairly common for women in the Puritan colonies - totaling about 15 percent - were "meaningful" names of abstract qualities.

Puritan tradition dominated political life.

Hester shows her inner feelings of ambivalent attitude to the Puritan beliefs.

Calvinism---Strict theological doctrine of the French Protestant church reformer John Calvin (1509-1564) and the basis of Puritan society.

The puritan in me says that there has to be some pain.

Many of the old puritan colonists retained their factious temperaments in the New World.

Maoist notions of puritan equality have given way to eager contestants and booming television audiences.

We are seeing today, in some circles, an almost unprecedented interest in the doctrines of the Reformation and the Puritan eras.

It is rooted historically and culturally in the Puritan idealism and the realistic tradition.

Many of the old puritan colonist retain their factious temperament in the New World.

Puritan opposition to pleasure and the arts sometimes has been exaggerated.

The proverbially dour New England Puritan.

A puritan may go to his brown-bread crust with as gross an appetite as ever an alderman to his turtle.

The school was named for a Puritan religious leader.

As a Puritan, he is strict in moral and religion.

Although he had advised against ostentatious behaviour, Confucius had never been a puritan and he abhorred asceticism

The Puritan ethic of hard work and saving still matters.

The puritan hate bear - bait not because it give pain to the bear but because it give pleasure to the spectator.

Puritan parents taught their children how to read, write, compute, manage a household and make a living.

Puritan most important feature is that it that extreme abstinence doctrine.

In 1620, the famous "mayflower" boat loaded with unbearable Britain Puritan religious persecution 102 arrived in America.

As we saw when we examined the Puritan view of work, since God created the material world, it is good.

Absolute Divine Authority and Inborn Human Rights --A Comparative Study of Edwards'and Franklin's Puritan Thoughts

secondly, the consistency of Puritan temperament with the inherent request of science's improvement;

Although many of its early graduates became ministers in Puritan congregations throughout New England,

The Early American Literature--The Puritan Poetry

Pent-up Roars in the Distance: A Social Rebound in the Puritan Literature of New England

the Puritan settlers in New England